"We can always find a piano to play, but we have to come from all over the world to Besancon to find an orchestra to conduct." So said New York's Allen Miller, 27, who with 34 other contestants (all under 30) was taking part in Besancon's tenth annual International Competition for Young Conductors. Every summer musicians and music fans journey to the town in eastern France to look over the new podium talent: a prize or honorable mention in the contest usually brings quick success, or at least a job, in the music world....
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